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The Huey Fong: Hong Kong's 1979 refugee crisis
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Series
Overseas Development Administration: United Nations Department 'B': Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: OD 108
What's it about?
OD 108
This series contains records of the United Nations Department 'B'.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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OD 108
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration: United Nations Department 'B': Registered Files (RST series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1978-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the United Nations Department 'B'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records of the United Nations Department B (INT Series), please see: OD 57
For records of the International and General Department (IG Series), please see: OD 9
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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RST
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration, United Nations Department B, 1979-1984
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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32 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2012 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Aid and development
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In 1976 the UNESCO and Multilateral Aid Institutions Departments were merged to form a new UN Department, which was subdivided into 'A' and 'B' departments. The departments were reunited as the United Nations and Commonwealth Department (UNCD) in 1984.
During this period the UNCD B department took on some of the work formerly undertaken by the International and General Department (IG Series), relating to international organisations, other than the UN, as well as international development funds and banks. Also, multilateral aid policy in general, the world food situation and relations with the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11862674/
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